Reversible garment

ABSTRACT

A garment is made up of a plurality of skirts, positioned one inside the other. Each skirt has a number of loops fixed to its waist portion, and a belt passes through these loops, holding the skirt together. Both sides of each skirt are patterned, and the order of the patterns may be changed by moving the outermost skirt to the innermost position, by completely reversing the plurality of skirts by pulling them all inside out, and the like.

United States Patent Muriel E. Reynolds San Francisco, Calif. (954Maddux Drive, Daly City, Calif. 94015) [21] Appl. No. 845,216

[22] Filed July 28, 1969 [45] Patented Apr. 13, 1971 [72] Inventor [54]REVERSIBLE GARMENT 8 Claims, 7 Drawing Figs.

[52] U.S.Cl.... 2/211 [51] 1nt.Cl. A4ld 1/14 [50] Field of Search 2/211- 213, 216, 222, 223, 74, 75, 47, 71, 72, (Digest) [56] ReferencesCited UNITED STATES PATENTS 715,248 12/1902 Davis 2/47 1,082,792 12/1913Bispham 2/47 1,084,970 l/l914 Shakofsky 2/74 1,695,590 12/1928 Jensen2/74 Primary Examinerl'l. Hampton Hunter Attorney-Mellin, Moor andWeissenberger ABSTRACT: A garment is made up of a plurality of skirts,positioned one inside the other. Each skirt has a number of loops fixedto its waist portion, and a belt passes through these loops, holding theskirt together. Both sides of each skirt are patterned, and the order ofthe patterns may be changed by moving the outermost skirt to theinnermost position, by completely reversing the plurality of skirts bypulling them all inside out, and the like.

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l6 rm ATTORNEYS MURIEL E. REYNOLDS REVERSIBLE GARMENT BACKGROUND OF THEINVENTION This invention relates to garments to be worn, and moreparticularly to a plurality of skirts making up the layers of thegarment.

It is well known, of course, to provide, as a garment, an outer skirt,beneath which are provided a number of lower skirts or petticoats. Suchgarment is generally not a single, integral design, but is made up of anumber of independent layers. Moreover, the garment is such that onlythe outer layer thereof is designed to be used as such, the inner layersnot being designed for this use. Thus, such a garment, because of thecompletely independent layers, is not convenient for use as designed.Nor is it particularly adaptable for use in a variety of ways, since theouter skirt is to be used only as an outer skirt.

US. Pat. Nos. l,( )76',l24 (.Iuda) and No. l,695,590 (Jensen) bothprovide garments which could be considered adaptable to be used in avariety of ways. But Juda discloses a singlelayered, reversible garment,and not a multilayered one. Jensen discloses a complete costume whichallows two successive changes of appearance while being worn, but is notdesigned to allow one to conveniently change back to a previously usedappearance. Finally, US Pat. No. 7l5,248 (Davis) discloses a protectivegarment to be used under the wearers regular garment. But the Davisgarment is to be used in this manner only, and is not thereforeadaptable for use in a variety of ways.

It is an object of thisinvention to provide a garment made up of aplurality of layered skirts, which is of a single, integral constructionso as to be used in a convenient manner.

It is a further object of this invention to provide a garment which,while fulfilling the above object, may be easily adapted for use in avariety of ways to quickly and easily change colors on the pattern ofthe outer garment.

It is a still further object of this invention to provide a garmentwhich, while fulfilling the above objects, is extremely simple andattractive in design.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Broadly stated, the inventive garment comprisesa plurality of skirts, arranged one inside the other, each skirtdefining a waist portion. Loop means are fixed to each skirt at thewaist portion thereof, independent of the other skirts. A belt isdisposed through each loop means, the loop means of each skirt beingfree to pivot about the longitudinal axis of the belt, whereby eachskirt is pivotablc relative to the belt about the longitudinal axis ofthe belt.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS These and other objects of theinvention will become apparent from a study of the followingspecification and drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the garment, showing the layers ofskirts thereof;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the garment, showing the outermost skirtthereof raised up;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the gannent, showing that outermostskirt of FIGS. 1 and 2 placed inside the other skirts of the garment,becoming the innermost skirt thereof;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the garment, showing the skirts of FIG.3 pulled inside out;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the waist portions of theskirts;

FIG. 6 is a view similar to that of FIG. 5, but with the outermost skirtraised up;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged perspective view of portions of the skirts,showing the loops attached to the waist portions of the skirts.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Shown generally at 10 in FIG. 1is the inventive garment. Such garment 10 includes skirts l2, 14, 16, 18positioned one inside the other to form a layered garment 10, as shown.The skirts 12, 14, I6, 18 define waist portions 20, 22, 24, 26respectively, (FIGS. 5--7) which are dimensioned to fit generally aroundthe waist of the person wearing the garment 10. The skirts 12-18 aresubstantially of the same dimensions from the waist portion thereof tothe bottom edge. As shown in those FIGS. 5-7, waist portion 20 has aplurality of loops 28 fixed thereto in spaced relation to each other.Similarly, waist portion 22 has loops 30 fixed thereto, waist portion 24has loops 32 fixed thereto, and waist portion 26 has loops 34 fixedthereto. Each of these loops 28-34 is of inverted U- shape, and has itsends (as ends 28A, 28B of a loop 28) fixed in back-to-back relation to awaist portion (as waist portion 20), as shown in FIG. 7.

A flexible belt 36, of substantially circular cross section (though notlimited to such configuration), is disposed through each loop 28-34, sothat each loop of each skirt is free to pivot about the longitudinalaxis A of the belt 36.

The loops 28-34 are arranged so that adjacent loops fixed to any oneskirt have positioned therebetween a single loop from each of the otherskirts. That is, for example, between any two adjacent loops 28 aredisposed one loop 30 (fixed to skirt 14), one loop 32 (fixed to skirt16), and one loop 34 (fixed to skirt 18).

With such free pivoting of the loops 28-34 about the longitudinal axis Aof the belt 36, it will be seen that each skirt 12l8 is pivotablerelative to the belt 36 about the longitudinal axis A of the belt 36(FIGS. 5 and 6). Such a feature allows the garment 10 to be used in amanner to be now described in conjunction with FIGS. l-4.

As shown in FIG. I, the surfaces 12A, 14A, 16A, 18A, of skirts I2, 14,16, 18 are patterned. To change the order of the surfaces 12A18A, thetop skirt 12 is lifted or raised up, each loop 28 pivoting about 36, tothe position shown in FIG. 2. Thus, it is seen that the opposite surface128 of skirt 12 is also patterned. The opposite surface 14B, 16B and 18Bof skirts 14-I8 are also patterned, as will be seen.

Skirt 12 is then passed downward through the opening defined by belt 36,and is put into the position shown in FIG. 3, as the innermost skirt.The order of surfaces is now 14A, 16A, 18A, 12A, from outside to inside.The order may again be changed, of course, by performing the sameoperation on the now outermost skirt 14, or the operation may bereversed by pulling the innermost skirt upward through belt 36.

The opposite surfaces 12B, 14B, 16B, 18B of skirts 12, 14, 16, 18 may bedisposed outwardly simply by pulling the waist portions 20, 22, 24, 26together downward through the bottom opening of the garment 10, exposingthe opposite surface 148 as the outermost surface. This is shown inFIGS. 3 and 4.

The garment 10 may be worn in any of the ways described, with the belt36 being fixed about the wearers waist.

It will be seen that herein is provided a garment made up of a pluralityof layered skirts, which is of integral construction, so as to be usedin a convenient manner. The garment can easily and quickly be altered sothat it can be used in a variety of ways. Overall, it will also be seenthat the garment is extremely simple and attractive in design.

Iclaim:

l. A reversible garment comprising:

a. a plurality of skirts each adapted for selective use as an outerskirt, arranged one inside the other, each skirt defining a waistportion;

b. loop means fixed to each skirt at the waist portion thereofindependent of the other skirts;

c. a belt disposed through each loop means, the loop means of at leastone of the skirts being free to pivot about the longitudinal axis of thebelt, whereby that skirt is pivotable relative to the belt about thelongitudinal axis of the belt for movement between inner and outergarment positions wherein said at least one skirt can be selectivelylocated on the inside or outside of said garment.

2. A garment according to claim 1 wherein the loop means of each skirtare free to pivot about the longitudinal axis of the belt, whereby eachskirt is pivotable relative to the belt about the longitudinal axis ofthe belt.

3. A garment according to claim 2 wherein the loop means of each skirtcomprise a plurality of inverted U-shape loops, with the ends thereoffixed in back-to-back relation to the waist portion of that skirt.

4. A garment according to claim 3 wherein the belt comprises a flexible.member of substantially circular cross section.

5. A garment according to claim 4 wherein each of the skirts is ofsubstantially the same dimension from the waist portion to the bottomedge.

6. A reversible garment comprising:

a. a plurality of skirts each adapted for selective use as an outerskirt, arranged one inside the other, each skirt defining a waistportion;

b. a plurality of loops fixed to each skirt at the waist portionthereof, independent of the other skirts;

c. a flexible belt slidably disposed through each loop of each skirt,such that between adjacent loops of one skirt are positioned a set ofloops made up of one loop fixed to each of the other skirts for movementbetween inner and outer garment positions wherein said at least oneskirt can be selectively located on the inside or outside of saidgarment.

7. A garment according to claim 6 wherein each loop of the plurality ofloops fixed to each skirt is of inverted U-shape, with the ends thereoffixed in back-to-back relation to the waist portion of that skirt.

8. A garment according to claim 7 wherein each of the skirts is ofsubstantially the same dimension from the waist portion to the bottomedge.

1. A reversible garment comprising: a. a plurality of skirts eachadapted for selective use as an outer skirt, arranged one inside theother, each skirt defining a waist portion; b. loop means fixed to eachskirt at the waist portion thereof independent of the other skirts; c. abelt disposed through each loop means, the loop means of at least one ofthe skirts being free to pivot about the longitudinal axis of the belt,whereby that skirt is pivotable relative to the belt about thelongitudinal axis of the belt for movement between inner and outergarment positions wherein said at least one skirt can be selectivelylocated on the inside or outside of said garment.
 2. A garment accordingto claim 1 wherein the loop means of each skirt are free to pivot aboutthe longitudinal axis of the belt, whereby each skirt is pivotablerelative to the belt about the longitudinal axis of the belt.
 3. Agarment according to claim 2 wherein the loop means of each skirtcomprise a plurality of inverted U-shape loops, with the ends thereoffixed in back-to-back relation to the waist portion of that skirt.
 4. Agarment according to claim 3 wherein the belt comprises a flexiblemember of substantially circular cross section.
 5. A garment accordingto claim 4 wherein each of the skirts is of substantially the samedimension from the waist portion to the bottom edge.
 6. A reversiblegarment comprising: a. a plurality of skirts each adapted for selectiveuse as an outer skirt, arranged one inside the other, each skirtdefining a waist portion; b. a plurality of loops fixed to each skirt atthe waist portion thereof, independent of the other skirts; c. aflexible belt slidably disposed through each loop of each skirt, suchthat between adjacent loops of one skirt are positioned a set of loopsmade up of one loop fixed to each of the other skirts for movementbetween inner and outer garment positions wherein said at least oneskirt can be selectively located on the inside or outside of saidgarment.
 7. A garment according to claim 6 wherein each loop of theplurality of loops fixed to each skirt is of inverted U-shape, with theends thereof fixed in back-to-back relation to the waist portion of thatskirt.
 8. A garment according to claim 7 wherein each of the skirts isof substantially the same dimension from the waist portion to the bottomedge.